Biographies

Leela Subramaniam, born in Los Angeles, studied voice at the Manhattan School of Music in New York.

She won various awards and competitions including the Alan M. and Joan Taub Ades Vocal Competition in New York and the National Council Auditions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She performed at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and the Prototype Festival in New York as well as in various productions at the Manhattan School of Music. Her repertoire includes Giannetta (L'elisir d'amore), Angelica (Orlando Paladino), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) and the title roles in Thaïs and Lucia di Lammermoor. In the 2015/16 season the Opera Foundation's stipendiary Leela Subramaniam will be a member of the Bayerische Staatsoper's Opera Studio.

Bayerische Staatsoper

Die Bayerische Staatsoper

Tradition, continuity and an impressive repertoire: these are the solid pillars supporting the Bayerische Staatsoper – one of the world’s leading opera houses. It can look back proudly on a cultural history of over 350 years. Thanks to a court tradition, opera found a home in Munich in 1653; since then its music-historical and sociopolitical development has continued in a way unparalleled anywhere else, worldwide.The Bayerische Staatsoper, with some 600,000 persons attending its over 450 performances each year, makes a major contribution to Munich’s reputation as one of the great international cultural capitals.

In the course of a single season, over 40 operas from four centuries are performed along with ballets, concerts and song recitals. This makes the programme of the Bayerische Staatsoper one of the most richly varied performance schedules of all the international opera houses. With 2,101 seats, the Bayerische Staatsoper’s principal performance venue, the National Theatre – built in classicistic style in 1818 – is the largest opera house in Germany and ranks as one of the handsomest theatres in Europe. Tours of the National Theatre take place almost every day.